Selene Fregosi

My Ph.D. research focuses on the application of slow-moving autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) as platforms for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) of marine mammals. Recent advances in AUV, including oceanographic gliders and floats, and PAM technologies have provided new opportunities for scientists to conduct PAM surveys with high spatio-temporal resolution. I am comparing the performance of these new systems to traditional methods, e.g., bottom-moored PAM systems. I am also working on the development of new methods to estimate marine mammal densities from acoustic data collected by these instruments.

I completed my M.S. at Oregon State University in 2015, where I developed and tested an animal-borne playback tag on northern elephant seals.

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Year Hired: 2012

Contact information

Oregon State University

Hatfield Marine Science Center

2030 SE Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 97365, USA

Phone: +1.541.867.0177

Email: selene.fregosi@oregonstate.edu

Degrees:
Ph.D., Wildlife Science, Oregon State University, in progress
M.S. Wildlife Science, Oregon State University, 2015
B.S., Marine Science – Biology, University of San Diego, 2009

Other: fregosi.weebly.com

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Recent Publications

McCullough, J.L.K. et al. (2023) ‘Geographic distribution of the Cross Seamount beaked whale based on acoustic detections’, Marine Mammal Science [Preprint]. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1111/mms.13061.

Fregosi, S. et al. (2022) ‘Detection probability and density estimation of fin whales by a Seaglider’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 152(4), pp. 2277–2291. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0014793.

Nieukirk, S.L. et al. (2016) ‘A complex baleen whale call recorded in the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 140(3), pp. EL274–EL279.

Matsumoto, H. et al. (2015) ‘Simultaneous operation of mobile acoustic recording systems off the Washington coast for cetacean studies’, in Proceedings of OCEANS 2015. Proceedings of OCEANS 2015, Washington DC, USA.

Klinck, H. et al. (2015) ‘Mobile autonomous platforms for passive-acoustic monitoring of high-frequency cetaceans’, in A. Friebe and F. Haug (eds) Robotic Sailing 2015: Proceedings of the 8th International Robotic Sailing Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 29–37.

Fregosi, S. et al. (2016) ‘An animal-borne active acoustic tag for minimally invasive behavioral response studies on marine mammals’, Animal Biotelemetry, 4(1), pp. 1–15. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40317-016-0101-z.

Fregosi, S. et al. (2020) ‘Detections of Whale Vocalizations by Simultaneously Deployed Bottom-Moored and Deep-Water Mobile Autonomous Hydrophones’, Frontiers in Marine Science, 7(721). Available at: https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2020.00721.

Fregosi, S. et al. (2020) ‘Comparison of fin whale 20 Hz call detections by deep-water mobile autonomous and stationary recorders’, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 147(2), pp. 961–977. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0000617.